Facebook 'vigilante' to appear in magazine

A “FACEBOOK vigilante” who was attacked after a party at Loughborough’s Students’ Union Building is set to appear in a national magazine next month after trying to find the perpetrator through the internet.

A FACEBOOK vigilante who was attacked after a party at Loughboroughs Students Union Building is set to appear in a national magazine next month after trying to find the perpetrator through the internet.

Hayley Parker, 20, turned to the social networking site in an attempt to find the person who left her badly scarred after a night out at the union building in April last year after police were unable to identify him from CCTV footage.

Now the Loughborough design student, from Coalville, is set to appear in Novembers Cosmopolitan magazine telling her story.

It was just coming up to the end of 1st year and we were at the union for my friends birthday party, she said. It was the end of the night and we were all saying goodbye. We had a really good night and a guy came up to us and started talking to two of my friends. He was telling them to kick this broken bottle and even though my friends said no because it was a stupid idea he did it anyway.

I felt something hit the back of my leg but Id had a bit to drink and didnt really notice. The next thing I knew my friend was asking me why I was standing in a pool of blood it had slit my leg open.

I shouted a security guard over as soon as I noticed but it had been a minute or so and hed run off, they couldnt find him anywhere. I had to have 16 stitches to the back of my calf with some internal as it had gone quite deep. Police had CCTV but they couldnt see him clearly enough to identify him and it kind of came to a stop from there.

I thought I needed to contact him and tell him what hed done to me so I started a Facebook group called Please help me find my attacker and bring him to justice to try and get hold of him.

I thought it would also be a way of making people aware of what can happen. I suffered with it for about six months, it became infected and I was on several courses of antibiotics which affected my coursework and exams.

Im in third year now. Ive been left with quite a bad scar and I cant go into crowded places but Im not as bad as I was.